[…]m Togus or their own system, their own sound system.Arthur Graham: You went there actually as a Cameraman?Eric Cross: Yes, an operator, I did all the Paramount quickies and every time I thought I was going to get a film they'd import a German or a French cameraman, or an American Cameraman, we were […]
[…] of early sound systems. In the 1930s he worked at Paramount News When war broke out in 1939, he was […]
[…] the Plaza, I sat with Dickie Attenborough, it was a Paramount picture. The Paramount executive came to me and he […]
[…]car and bring the film's down to the hall? And then can you fix the car? So he did all that. And I remember it was a Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis from paramount in colour. And he got he came, he brought the films down, carried them up the ladder, and they were all on spools ready, and onto the machin[…]
[…]ink it was twenty titles a year or something like that, and other studiosfollowed suit. Universal. Strangely not so much MGM, but certainly Universal,Paramount, Fox all now do a modicum of restoration work, usually on selectedtitles. But it does mean they are looking at catalogues, and beginning to […]
[…]tor wants, you’ve got no chance. You have to in essence read your director's mind and I think the relationship between a director and an operator are paramount; apart from the cameraman. It’s nothing about loyalty, I have loyalty to everyone but I would always see the director's point of v[…]
[…]d I said, look, there must be, apart from the Sterling element to this policy, there must be a dollar element. They said, Well, we haven't heard from Paramount about this. And I said, well you get on to Paramount and find out. They came back about 48 hours later and asked me to do the dollar policy […]
